At the same time, the United States also faces significant challenges from domestic terrorists. In fact, between 1980 and 2000, the FBI recorded 335 incidents or suspected incidents of terrorism in this country.
A list of many commercial banks in the United States can be found at the website of the FDIC. According to the FDIC, there were 6,799 FDIC-insured commercial banks in the United States as of February 11, 2014. Every member of the Federal Reserve System is listed along with non-members who are also insured by the FDIC.
By the late 1990s, consolidation in the banking industry had been an ongoing trend for twenty years. The number of commercial banks in the United States had fallen from more than 14,000 in 1984 to fewer than 9,000 in 1999, while the average size of those banks had grown. This was part of a broader trend of consolidation in financial services industries.